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Friday, March 31, 2017

Poetry Month 2017

"God Bless the Grass" has been a favorite folksong of mine for many years. Recently, I got curious to know if Pete Seger wrote it, or just performed it. That's when my research brought me to the amazing life and work of Malvina Reynolds.

As soon as I started learning about Malvina Reynolds, I knew that I wanted more people to get to know her, and I could do that with a month of biographical poems about her life and inspired by her songs. Her work is once again quite timely, and I'm looking forward to introducing my students and blog readers to an amazing woman, activist, songwriter, and down-to-earth human being. I want to honor her, and make sure that her creativity remains alive in this world.

About Me

In 2002, I wrote RECONSIDERING READ-ALOUD (Stenhouse).
I have poems in the K-5, 6-8, science, and Celebrations editions of The Poetry Friday Anthology. I have two poems in the anthology DEAR TOMATO: AN INTERNATIONAL CROP OF FOOD & AGRICULTURE POEMS, and a poem in THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BOOK OF NATURE POETRY.